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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/networking/6lowpan.rst (renamed from Documentation/networking/6lowpan.txt) | 29 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/networking/index.rst | 1 |
2 files changed, 17 insertions, 13 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/6lowpan.txt b/Documentation/networking/6lowpan.rst index 2e5a939d7e6f..e70a6520cc33 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/6lowpan.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/6lowpan.rst @@ -1,37 +1,40 @@ +.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 -Netdev private dataroom for 6lowpan interfaces: +============================================== +Netdev private dataroom for 6lowpan interfaces +============================================== All 6lowpan able net devices, means all interfaces with ARPHRD_6LOWPAN, must have "struct lowpan_priv" placed at beginning of netdev_priv. -The priv_size of each interface should be calculate by: +The priv_size of each interface should be calculate by:: dev->priv_size = LOWPAN_PRIV_SIZE(LL_6LOWPAN_PRIV_DATA); Where LL_PRIV_6LOWPAN_DATA is sizeof linklayer 6lowpan private data struct. -To access the LL_PRIV_6LOWPAN_DATA structure you can cast: +To access the LL_PRIV_6LOWPAN_DATA structure you can cast:: lowpan_priv(dev)-priv; to your LL_6LOWPAN_PRIV_DATA structure. -Before registering the lowpan netdev interface you must run: +Before registering the lowpan netdev interface you must run:: lowpan_netdev_setup(dev, LOWPAN_LLTYPE_FOOBAR); wheres LOWPAN_LLTYPE_FOOBAR is a define for your 6LoWPAN linklayer type of enum lowpan_lltypes. -Example to evaluate the private usually you can do: +Example to evaluate the private usually you can do:: -static inline struct lowpan_priv_foobar * -lowpan_foobar_priv(struct net_device *dev) -{ + static inline struct lowpan_priv_foobar * + lowpan_foobar_priv(struct net_device *dev) + { return (struct lowpan_priv_foobar *)lowpan_priv(dev)->priv; -} + } -switch (dev->type) { -case ARPHRD_6LOWPAN: + switch (dev->type) { + case ARPHRD_6LOWPAN: lowpan_priv = lowpan_priv(dev); /* do great stuff which is ARPHRD_6LOWPAN related */ switch (lowpan_priv->lltype) { @@ -42,8 +45,8 @@ case ARPHRD_6LOWPAN: ... } break; -... -} + ... + } In case of generic 6lowpan branch ("net/6lowpan") you can remove the check on ARPHRD_6LOWPAN, because you can be sure that these function are called diff --git a/Documentation/networking/index.rst b/Documentation/networking/index.rst index 3a83cfb66704..50133d9761c9 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/index.rst +++ b/Documentation/networking/index.rst @@ -34,6 +34,7 @@ Contents: tls tls-offload nfc + 6lowpan .. only:: subproject and html |